In Bahrain; The door is not closed in the face of anyone, and a citizen or resident does not ask about his sect and his religion, and the candles do not extinguish, and the councils are not prevented, and the mosques, funerals and churches are not closed, but rather regulates time, prepares the space for them, and provides them with all support and support from the various institutions of the state concerned, in addition to the national legislation that guarantees the freedom to practice acts of worship on the land of the Kingdom.
All of this does not only happen in cities and villages; Even behind prison walls and detention centers, where the Ashura season was present as it is in the streets.
In the prison, the inmates were commemorating with all the consciences it carried, as the National Human Rights Foundation visited him, and the General Secretariat of Grievances visited him, and he heard him from the mouths of the prisoners themselves, some of them said simply: “We established the councils, read supplications, and found cooperation and respect.”
What is happening in Bahrain does not need justification or defense, but rather a real understanding of those who want to see; The practice of religious freedom is not an exception, and the state does not offer it as a concession, it is part of our national fabric, which reflected it clearly and transparently the vision of His Majesty the King, which placed man at the heart of the state project, and this was reflected in every detail of the law and practice on the ground.
Bahrain is not a virtuous city, and does not claim perfection, but it is a country that has chosen to be an incubator of diversity and a gambling of dignity even for the detainees and the prisoners.
And for those who lie in wait from the outside, or love hunting in troubled water, we say; Religious freedom is not measured by what is said about it, but rather with what it lives on the ground, and in Bahrain, this reality is translated into the revival of Ashura in prison, as it is translated by raising the bells of churches, decorating temples on holidays, and hearing the call to prayer from every doctrine throughout the country.
Bahrain is a small country of its size, but large in its human presence, because it is simply …
What happened and happens in Bahrain during the Ashura season is an affirmation that coexistence is not by speeches, but by daily practices.
And if Bahrain, with all its demographic specificity, was able to devote this model the true religious freedom model, the safe practice of acts of worship and rituals, and the honest institutional control, then the most important question is; Why do some insist on looking at the reality in one eye?
Bahrain’s humanitarian march, led by His Majesty the King, and with the support of its constitutional and societal institutions, deserves to be narrated, not because it is an exception, but rather because it is evidence of the importance of coexistence and tolerance among the children of one society, if any will.
